I gain and lose followers on Twitter all the time, mainly because most of my recent followers are little bloodsuckers hoping for the superficial validation of a followback. If I don't respond within a certain amount of time to their having followed me, then they flake off and unfollow, seeking fresh blood elsewhere. Good riddance, I say.
But my list of blog followers is a different story. These followers are people who show a serious sense of commitment. They might not do much; they might be more "barnacle" than commenter, but they stick around. They're loyal folk.
Over the past 48 hours, however, my blog followers have been disappearing. It feels a bit like an Agatha Christie novel: I've gone from 34 followers to 30, which makes me suspicious: even when I lose Twitter followers, the drop is never that steep or that quick. Surmise: there's a problem with Blogger's software. I seriously doubt that the four people (thus far) who have unfollowed this blog all coincidentally had the urge to unfollow at the exact same time. That would be surpassingly strange.
I expect the drop-off will continue; I have no idea for how long.
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I became a twit yesterday, and it automatically imports my social search engine usage preferences unless I manually delete each and every one.
ReplyDeleteI had to become a twit to tweet to another twit whose email address I desperately need for a lawsuit. I can't believe just how hard it is to reach out and touch certain millennials now that most landlines have gone the way of the dinosaur coupled with the complete lack of a modern day cell/smart phone book.
Anyhow, I will cease my life as a twit as soon as this young punk provides me with her contact information, so you can expect another twit loss in the near future.
Them's the breaks.
ReplyDeleteWell, I ain't no follower, but I sure am stickin' around.
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